Animation studio Future Deluxe and music/sound house Squeak E. Clean studios teamed on this tech-savvy and mystery-laden spot to help the Samsung Galaxy explode onto the scene ahead of its annual
This “Unpacked: Break the rules of what’s possible” piece came out of agencies Publicis Groupe/Leo Burnett/The Community/Le Truc.
Credits
Client Samsung Agency Publicis Groupe/Leo Burnett/The Community/Le Truc Bastien Baumann, chief creative officer/co-founder, Le Truc; Josh Horn, SVP, executive creative director; Paz Molina, Chris Mendez, associate creative directors; Aubrey Estes, associate copywriter; Hannah Berling, associate art director; Ed Tsue, EVP, global chief strategy officer; John Connell, Lisha Kopper, strategy directors; Cheherazade Patel, VP, executive producer; Natalie Dahl, producer; Julie Lewandowski, production manager. Animation Future Deluxe Caleigh Illerbrun, head of production; Svet Lapcheva, exec producer; Ellis Garrod, producer; Ben & Marcus, creatives. Post/Finishing Framestore. Music/Sound Squeak E. Clean Studios, bicoastal & Chicago Chris Clark, executive creative producer; Julie Nichols, creative director; Matthew Compton, Nick Keenan, Zach Henderson, composers; Surachai Sutthisasanakul, sound designer; Ben Abud, assistant sound designer. Audio Post Squeak E. Clean Studios, bicoastal & Chicago Surachai Sutthisasanakul, mixer; Angelina Phengphong, sr. post producer.
FactSet, a global financial digital platform and enterprise solutions provider, has partnered with Chicago-based creative agency VSA Partners to unveil a second round of spots in its “Not Just the Facts” campaign. The campaign originally launched back in April.
The campaign was built on a core strategic insight: While quality data is critical for financial professionals, facts in isolation provide little value. FactSet’s personalization, data connectivity, open and flexible technology, and dedicated service and support provide the context necessary for the investment community to turn facts into valuable insights--and make the most of them.
The new creative picks up where the previous left off. This time it focuses on a particularly boorish office worker, drolly played by character actor Wyndham Maxwell, who ticks off an encyclopedic list of facts and non sequiturs during business meetings and to the bemusement of his colleagues.
The tongue-in-cheek campaign, which plays more like a perfect-pitch comedy series than a typical B2B commercial effort, is a major departure from financial services industry norm--both in its use of humor and in its humanistic approach. Starting this week, FactSet will roll out 16 unique spots—a combination of :30s, :15s, :06s and nine “shorts”—across multiple channels including digital, streaming and CTV.
This :30, “Dinos,” has an office worker’s relevant reference to dinosaurs spark our boorish colleague who proceeds to utter one irrelevant fact after another about the prehistoric creatures.
The Los Angeles–based Docter Twins (Matthew and Jason Docter) directed the original campaign and this new humorous work through their production company, Thinking Machine. The identical twin... Read More